Complexity Science, Living Systems, and Reflexing Interfaces: New Models and Perspectives

Complexity Science, Living Systems, and Reflexing Interfaces: New Models and Perspectives

Franco Orsucci, Nicoletta Sala

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 466

ISBN13: 9781466620773|ISBN10: 1466620773|EISBN13: 9781466620780

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2077-3

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There are new and important advancements in today’s complexity theories in ICT and requires an extraordinary perspective on the interaction between living systems and information technologies. With human evolution and its continuous link with the development of new tools and environmental changes, technological advancements are paving the way for new evolutionary steps.

Complexity Science, Living Systems, and Reflexing Interfaces: New Models and Perspectives is a collection of research provided by academics and scholars aiming to introduce important advancements in areas such as artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, neural networks, and much more. This scholarly piece will provide contributions that will define the line of development in complexity science.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Living Systems and Information Technology

Chapter 1

Reflexing Interfaces (pages 1-24)

Franco F. Orsucci

Since the first production of tools at the beginning of human presence on earth, evolutionary jumps mark human development. Sometimes, these punctuations were triggered by inventions of new tools, combined with new environmental...

Chapter 2

Fractal Geometry as a Bridge between Realms (pages 25-43)

Terry Marks-Tarlow

This chapter describes fractal geometry as a bridge between the imaginary and the real, mind and matter, conscious and the unconscious. Fractals are multidimensional objects with self-similar detail across size and/or time scales....

Chapter 3

Thinking Animals and Thinking Machines in Psychoanalysis and Beyond (pages 44-68)

Franco Scalzone, Gemma Zontini

In this chapter, the authors examine some similarities between computer science and psychoanalysis, and formulate some hypotheses by bringing closer the statute of connectionism to the energetic model of the psychic apparatus as well...

Chapter 4

Dynamical Disequilibrium, Transformation, and the Evolution and Development of Sustainable Worldviews (pages 69-77)

Liane Gabora, Maegan Merrifield

This chapter begins by outlining a promising, new theoretical framework for the process by which human culture evolves inspired by the views of complexity theorists on the problem of how life began. Elements of culture, like species...

Chapter 5

Exploring Structural and Dynamical Properties Microtubules by Means of Artificial Neural Networks (pages 78-91)

R. Pizzi, S. Fiorentini, G. Strini, M. Pregnolato

Microtubules (MTs) are cylindrical polymers of the tubulin dimer, are constituents of all eukaryotic cells cytoskeleton and are involved in key cellular functions and are claimed to be involved as sub-cellular information or quantum...

Chapter 6

Neurofeedback: Refining the Methodology of Brain-Computer Interface Training (pages 92-111)

David Vernon, Tammy Dempster

This chapter explores the use of neurofeedback training as a mechanism for altering human brain functioning and in turn influencing behaviour. It outlines the notion that such training provides a plausible mechanism by which an...

Chapter 7

The Biotic Logic of Quantum Processes and Quantum Computation (pages 112-182)

Hector Sabelli, Louis H. Kauffman

This chapter explores how the logic of physical and biological processes may be employed in the design and programing of computers. Quantum processes do not follow Boolean logic; the development of quantum computers requires the...

Application Fields

Chapter 8

Networks: A Sketchy Portrait of an Emergent Paradigm (pages 184-195)

Alessandro Giuliani

Some applications of network based modelling are presented so to introduce the basic terminology of the emergent network paradigm to highlight strengths and limitations of the method and to sketch the strong relation linking network...

Chapter 9

Complexity, Emergence and Molecular Diversity via Information Theory (pages 196-208)

Francisco Torrens, Gloria Castellano

Numerous definitions for complexity have been proposed with little consensus. The definition here is related to Kolmogorov complexity and Shannon entropy measures. However, the price is to introduce context dependence into the...

Chapter 10

Recurrence Indicators for the Estimation of Characteristic Size and Frequency of Spatial Patterns (pages 209-217)

Chiara Mocenni, Angelo Facchini

In this chapter, the authors propose a method for the estimation of the characteristic size and frequency of the typical structure in systems showing two dimensional spatial patterns. In particular, they use several indicators caught...

Chapter 11

The Residence Time of the Water in Lake MAGGIORE. Through an Eulerian-Lagrangian Approach (pages 218-234)

Leonardo Castellano, Nicoletta Sala, Angelo Rolla, Walter Ambrosetti

This chapter describes a study designed to evaluate the spectrum of the residence time of the water at different depths of a deep lake, and to examine the mechanisms governing the seasonal cycle of thermal stratification and...

Chapter 12

Possibility of Fractal Aesthetics (pages 235-259)

Ljubiša M. Kocic

Fast development of computer networking contributes to the global spreading and popularizing of the notion of fractals and complex patterns in their use in computer-aided design and computer art. This chapter looks for answers to the...

Chapter 13

Parametric Generator for Architectural and Urban 3D Objects (pages 260-267)

Renato Saleri Lunazzi

The authors developed and finalized a specific tool able to model the global structure of architectural objects through a morphological and semantic description of its finite elements. This discrete conceptual model - still in study...

Chapter 14

Fractals, Computer Science and Beyond (pages 268-291)

Nicoletta Sala

In the modelling of the natural shapes (clouds, ferns, trees, shells, rivers, mountains), the limits imposed by Euclidean geometry can be exceeded by the fractals. Fractal geometry is relatively young (the first studies are the works...

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